Peter Lynch Quotes

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• Know what you own, and know why you own it.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Intelligent, Investing

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• Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

  Peter Lynch

  Trying, Lost, More Money

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• Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Panic, Making Money

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Charts are great for predicting the past.

  Peter Lynch

  Past, Predicting

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• The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Pain, Mistake, Humility

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Art, People, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

  Peter Lynch

  Risk, Analyzing, Management

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• An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

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  Keys, Important, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

  Peter Lynch

  Mean, Needs, Lifetime

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• Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing Money, Brain, Making Money

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

  Peter Lynch

  Buying, Attractive, Bottom

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• Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Successful, Keys, Years

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

  Peter Lynch

  Loss, Understanding, Balance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Investing, Attractive

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing

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• Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

  Peter Lynch

  Mean, Doe, Investing

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• My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

  Peter Lynch

  Never Change, Made, Method

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• The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Long, Good Company

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

  Peter Lynch

  Fall, Weekend, Thinking

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• Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Worry, World

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

  Peter Lynch

  Ideas, Investing, Saving

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

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  Opportunity, Forever, Promise

  "One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market". Book by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild, 1989.

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• When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

  Peter Lynch

  Desperation, Sells

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Long, Population

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